Sleeping on a deadhead?

You all should have seen my captain a week or two ago if you think sleeping while deadheading isn't right.

The plane was late coming in to this outstation where we were finishing a three hour sit. Our bags were near the podium and that's where the captain was sitting when I left the area to get something to eat at the other end of the concourse.

I returned to the gate area twenty minutes later to find him fast asleep, head bobbing around, passengers all around him on the benches reading their papers and chatting on their phones. I tapped him on the shoulder and his dreaming ended!
 
Cptnchia said:
Unless you're in the ATL. Then apparently, there are enough of them around that they actually tail crew members through the airport using agents in civilian clothes to see where and if the crew member changes. Several employees, including pilots have already been caught and had their SIDA priviledges revoked.
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Please tell me you are joking?? UGH...yet another reason to hate the TSA (especially the ATL crew)...New meaning to thousands sitting on asses
 
mtsu_av8er said:
That's true - we walk around with our hands in our pockets, hands in our pockets, eating while we walk, sans hat outdoors!!!

Unsat.
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Okay Lloyd, I have a military uniform question for you. (Military, not airline) Should a uniform hat be worn indoors, at any time for any reason? Example: a person in military uniform inside an airport concourse. Hat or no hat? (sheer curiosity.....)
 
I'd be tempted to take sedatives for all my deadheads and jumpseating adventures if it were allowed. The flights where I doze off before takeoff are by far my most pleasant experiences when riding aft of the flight deck door. Hopefully I haven't drooled on too many loyal customers while my head dangles around lifeless and limp from the headrest of a middle seat.
 
MQAAord said:
Okay Lloyd, I have a military uniform question for you. (Military, not airline) Should a uniform hat be worn indoors, at any time for any reason? Example: a person in military uniform inside an airport concourse. Hat or no hat? (sheer curiosity.....)
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Excellent question, Amber!

Each branch has slightly different regulations regarding the wearing of headgear. In the Marine Corps and Navy, the cover is NOT worn indoors unless the Marine or Sailor is under arms (which doesn't necessarily mean being armed . . . hehehe).

So, basically, when on guard duty, wearing a duty belt, etc, it is required that one be covered indoors. The exception to this is when entering a chowhall or church.

There is no reference to headgear with regards to airports. Therefore, the cover should come off.

From Marine Corps Order 1020.34G:

Headgear is normally removed indoors. Marines in a duty status and
wearing side-arms or a pistol belt will remain covered indoors except when
entering a space where a meal is in progress or religious services are being
conducted. Headgear will be worn in Government vehicles, and in privately
owned vehicles on military bases and installations, except when doing so
would present a hazard to safe driving.
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It is important to remember that each and every branch has different regulations regarding the wearing of uniforms. For example, Soldiers are allowed to wear the utility uniform (Cammies) when traveling on airlines. That would just about get you jail time in the Marine Corps (unless you're traveling on duty, on a chartered aircraft, as a unit. As a matter of fact, we couldn't wear the utility uniform off base PERIOD, unless you're going directly to or from work, or picking up children from daycare facilities. No stopping in the grocery store, no stopping at the video store, no stopping to pay a traffic ticket. This is NOT the case for Soldiers and Airmen.

Clear as mud? :)
 
The only restrictions the Navy had in my day was no flight suits off base. And in DC you had to wear either Service Dress Blue or Whites if you set foot inside the beltway.
 
Velocipede said:
The only restrictions the Navy had in my day was no flight suits off base. And in DC you had to wear either Service Dress Blue or Whites if you set foot inside the beltway.
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Yeah I remember way back when that Marines wearing Cammies (BDU's for you Army types) in public was a no no but they changed that somewhere along the way--
 
Velocipede said:
The only restrictions the Navy had in my day was no flight suits off base. And in DC you had to wear either Service Dress Blue or Whites if you set foot inside the beltway.
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Yeah we couldn't wear dungarees off base. If someone saw you in the grocery store or pumping gas you were toast. No hats inside either....which is why it always makes me feel weird to wear mine inside....
 
mtsu_av8er said:
Excellent question, Amber!

Each branch has slightly different regulations regarding the wearing of headgear. In the Marine Corps and Navy, the cover is NOT worn indoors unless the Marine or Sailor is under arms (which doesn't necessarily mean being armed . . . hehehe).

So, basically, when on guard duty, wearing a duty belt, etc, it is required that one be covered indoors. The exception to this is when entering a chowhall or church.

There is no reference to headgear with regards to airports. Therefore, the cover should come off.

From Marine Corps Order 1020.34G:



It is important to remember that each and every branch has different regulations regarding the wearing of uniforms. For example, Soldiers are allowed to wear the utility uniform (Cammies) when traveling on airlines. That would just about get you jail time in the Marine Corps (unless you're traveling on duty, on a chartered aircraft, as a unit. As a matter of fact, we couldn't wear the utility uniform off base PERIOD, unless you're going directly to or from work, or picking up children from daycare facilities. No stopping in the grocery store, no stopping at the video store, no stopping to pay a traffic ticket. This is NOT the case for Soldiers and Airmen.

Clear as mud? :)
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Thank you! I'd wondered about that. Thank you for the explanation :)
 
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